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Rwanda is a 26,000 sq.km country in the Great Rift Valley in central Africa with a population of 12.63 mil people. The capital city is Kigali. Rwanda is just 1.5 degrees south of the Equator and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It has many hills, with mountains in the west and savanna to the east. There are numerous lakes throughout the country, the biggest one of which is Lake Kivu in the west. The climate is temperate to subtropical with two rainy s
Population 8,722,000 Capital Kigali; 656,000 Area 26,338 square kilometers (10,169 square miles) Language Kinyarwanda, French, English, Kiswahili Religion Roman Catholic, Protestant, Adventist, Muslim Currency Rwandan franc Life Expectancy 48 GDP Per Capita U.S. $1,200 Literacy Percent 70 More detailed facts on Wikipedia